Whew, at first I wondered which essay, Benjamin's on the aura, & that
word you used, but no, it's duende, & what a fine response to it you
penned (input?).
Like a lot of things, I suspect it exists in the interchange between
creator & audience, using those terms in their widest manner; that
duende is there in his performance partly because you felt it as such.
Sounds like quite the theatrical experience, & thanks for offering
your response, Alison.
Doug
On 8-Apr-09, at 11:22 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> That essay is also in Deep Song & Other Essays (I think it's called
> that). A signal book for me.
>
> Here's me using the term in discussing a totally brilliant cabaret
> artist, Paul Capsis -
>
> http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2007/06/on-paul-capsis.html
>
> xA
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Douglas Barbour
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Wh definitely had duende, too. I certainly agree about Miles.
>>
>> On his last recording, Dolphy said: 'When you hear music, after
>> it’s over,
>> it’s gone in the air. You can never capture it again.'
>>
>> One of the ironies of trying to deal with Benjamin's concept of the
>> 'aura,'
>> which is discussed at length in a new book, Mapping Benjamin: The
>> Work of
>> Art in the Digital Age, is that the particular music he's speaking
>> of was
>> recorded 'live' as was the comment, so I have it to mull over over
>> & over
>> again....
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On 7-Apr-09, at 3:10 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>>
>>> I don't if it is out on the internet - but Lorca's lecture in Cuba
>>> on his
>>> interpretation of "duende" is in the appendix of Ben Bellit's
>>> Grove Press
>>> edition of "Poet in New York."
>>>
>>> In my early twenties starting out, that essay and Rilke's "Letters
>>> to a
>>> Young Poet" went right to the heart. As did William Carlos
>>> William's "The
>>> Desert Music." More so.
>>>
>>> I think I will go put on some Eric Dolpy.
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Latest books:
>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> Wednesdays'
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>> The covers of this book are too far apart.
>>
>> Ambrose Bierce
>>
>
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Latest books:
Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
Wednesdays'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce
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